[Gllug] FW: UK2.NET (relion.net) - CODE RED WORM WARNING

[David Irvine]

LMAO.

> just received this from uk2.net :)
> 
> oh my...
> 
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> ======================================
> UK2: Code Red worm WARNING
> ======================================
> 
> BRACE YOURSELVES
> 
> August 1st Midnight will see an attack
> of the entire Internet that has not been
> seen before, in form of the Code Red worm.
> UK2.Net engineers are working against the
> clock to prevent this attack, aided by our
> upstream bandwidth providers and, more
> generally, by the entire Internet community,
> but this is a race against time and a race
> that we may well lose. UK2.Net systems may 
> be swamped by network traffic generated by
> infected Microsoft IIS servers, which will
> mean your website appears to be offline and
> your email does not get through. We are
> however standing by to resolve the attack
> tonight.
> 
> Let us make it quite clear: the worm infects
> only Microsoft IIS web servers, which have a
> well-documented history of security exploits
> and vulnerabilities. If you are using an IIS
> server, either on a hosted machine or via
> a third-party ISP, we would strongly advise
> you to shut it down and replace it by an
> Apache solution (http://www.apache.org/).
> 
> Some reports suggest that already 300,000
> IIS servers are infected, which should once
> and for all serve as a lesson of why we
> suggest you should avoid using Microsoft IIS
> for professional web hosting. Rest assured as
> we do not host any IIS servers as we are a
> complete Unix host; no servers have been
> compromised. And please, call your web host
> to ensure that your web sites and domains are
> not hosted on a Microsoft IIS server.
> 
> Latest news articles
>  
> http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3N80ZLSPC
> http://europe.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/07/30/code.red/index.html
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20719.html
> http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/alerts/2001/01-016.htm
> http://www.cert.org/archive/html/coderedannounce.html
> 
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> 
> rg, Axel Segebrecht
> Me = http://smatrix.de/index.html
> Radio = http://213.123.256.54:8000/
> 
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